1 00:00:01,400 --> 00:00:03,600 What's going on? Port City family and friends. 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,440 How are? We doing good. 3 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:08,039 Well, my name is Tanner. I'm one of the pastors. 4 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:10,480 Here it is a pleasure to be with you and y'all. 5 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:12,880 This is our last week and our. Summer in the Psalm series. 6 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:14,760 Which is bittersweet. We've done. 7 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:17,640 Psalms. 111 to now 118 we'll keep. 8 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:19,280 Coming back to the Psalms in the future. 9 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:21,560 Y'all the Psalms? Are the best. 10 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:24,600 I love them this. Week I we. 11 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:28,040 We cooked some chicken at our house, OK, And we cooked it with 12 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:30,440 some marinade. You know, I want you to imagine 13 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:32,880 your favorite marinade that you put on your chicken. 14 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:36,800 OK, now if I told you I'd just slap the marinade on there 2 15 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:41,000 minutes before we put it on the. Grill or if it sat. 16 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,840 In a bag full. Of the marinade for 24 hours, 17 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:45,760 which chicken do you think was better? 18 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:50,800 The one where it's soaked right y'all? 19 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:53,280 Here at Port City, we're. Passionate about helping people 20 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:56,080 understand. Your soul is the chicken. 21 00:00:58,120 --> 00:00:59,560 You laughing? I'm serious. 22 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:02,840 I hope that. Gets in your head. 23 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:06,200 Your soul is the chicken, and as a human being. 24 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:09,200 You have the volitional. Choice to choose your marinade. 25 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:11,960 Does that make sense? All of you are. 26 00:01:11,960 --> 00:01:15,120 In a bag right now, did you know that? 27 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:17,480 And if you wake up? And you grab the. 28 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:19,880 Phone and you check the e-mail, you check the text, you check 29 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:22,280 the scores, and you check the you check the things. 30 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:24,920 Guess what your marinade is? Anxiety. 31 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:26,520 Pressure. You're behind. 32 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:28,720 You're behind on your goals. You are not enough. 33 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:30,680 And here at Port City, we're trying to. 34 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:32,760 Say, make the marinade the word of God. 35 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:35,080 Make the marinade the. Realities of the. 36 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:37,560 Kingdom make the. The reality of the world as it 37 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:39,200 is through God's eyes. Your marinade. 38 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:41,880 And y'all the psalms. Give us a great. 39 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:44,160 Marinade they give. US a world that isn't. 40 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:47,520 Shutting our. Eyes, how hard it is. 41 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:48,960 Like. Life is hard, but God is 42 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:50,480 faithful. Life is tragic, God is. 43 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:51,560 Faithful. That's the Psalms. 44 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:55,480 So as we close out this series, please keep. 45 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:57,160 Reading them, read at least one a day. 46 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:01,120 Just soak in the psalms even when it feels like you. 47 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:03,600 Can't 1 to 1 connect? How does this change my life? 48 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:04,680 Y'all? It's a marinade. 49 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:09,080 It's getting in you, OK. And remember, when you're not in 50 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:12,040 God's Word, when it's not in you, something else is taking 51 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:14,200 its place, OK? So let me pray. 52 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:16,720 For our just life. In the Psalms, our life. 53 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:18,320 Together as a. As a. 54 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:21,800 Body and and friends around us that we would be a people that 55 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:23,320 can. Live in a tragic world with a 56 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:27,080 good God. OK, our Father, we love you. 57 00:02:28,640 --> 00:02:32,400 Laura, we just acknowledged that we are made, we are finite, we 58 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:35,360 are fickle. Lord, we we are the piece of 59 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:41,240 chicken got in and you made us here on purpose, for purpose. 60 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:44,040 And God, we just recognize that we need to be wise about the 61 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:46,000 marinade. We choose to. 62 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:47,680 Soak our. Souls in and nobody's going to 63 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:49,880 do that for us and and people make a lot of money. 64 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:53,320 To distract us to. Concern us, scare us, hype us 65 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:55,400 up, make us think we are the greatest of all time. 66 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:59,000 But God, you are the greatest and we just acknowledge that 67 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,880 that we want to shift our attention to you right now. 68 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:03,560 And I just pray for our life in the Psalms. 69 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:06,560 Got to pray even when life is. Hard we would trust. 70 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:08,520 That you are good and it would shape how we live. 71 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:11,920 Bless this church, fill us with the Spirit and open our eyes. 72 00:03:11,920 --> 00:03:13,960 Now we pray in Christ's name, Amen. 73 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:19,000 We all we in Psalm 118 today and it is unique for two reasons. 74 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,400 One is the structure and the other is the the content. 75 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:25,160 So I want to go ahead and tell you how the structure is unique. 76 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:27,920 So what you're going to? See as we. 77 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:29,840 Get into it. Is I want you. 78 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:32,160 To imagine like it's going to shift from the group. 79 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaking to an individual speaking. 80 00:03:34,640 --> 00:03:36,520 To some pre speaking back to the group. 81 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:39,080 OK so the image I want to go. Ahead and give you of. 82 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:41,520 Why that is OK? It's almost like a call and 83 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:43,400 response of different people singing. 84 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:45,760 There was a fancy word antiphonal. 85 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:46,760 I look it up. What does that mean? 86 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:49,160 It just means like call and response, different groups 87 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:51,160 singing at different. Times want you to. 88 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:55,200 Imagine a king. OK, and almost imagine him going 89 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:56,840 like from a. Battlefield where he just. 90 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,920 Won and as he's walking. Towards the temple to worship 91 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:03,400 God, all of God's. People line up behind him and 92 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:05,680 it's this. Ushering in of a king with his 93 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:07,920 people and they're singing to. Each other he's. 94 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:10,680 Singing his song. Of God's deliverance, they're. 95 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:12,800 Entering near the temple and the priest. 96 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaks out about who's allowed. To enter. 97 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:17,320 And then the king and all the people usher in, and they go. 98 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:19,440 All the way up to the altar to praise the. 99 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:21,480 Lord in the temple. Does that make sense? 100 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:22,840 So. Very unique imagery. 101 00:04:22,840 --> 00:04:25,320 I want you all to. Have then it's also unique. 102 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:29,520 For its content y'all hopefully. You could pick up already. 103 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:32,800 The imagery of a king winning a. Battle headed to a temple. 104 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:35,680 Who is righteous enough to enter that temple and usher? 105 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:37,920 All of God's people to worship at the altar. 106 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:41,400 There is a king who did that. The New Testament quotes this 107 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:45,680 Psalm, arguably more than any other Psalm referencing King. 108 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:48,440 Jesus, he is the victorious. Champion. 109 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:51,320 He is the the new temple. He is the one who can take us to 110 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:51,880 the. Altar. 111 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:56,960 And so this Psalm is primarily about Messiah. 112 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:59,920 King Jesus, So what? I want to do. 113 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:02,720 Is, I want us to think. About how this song used to be. 114 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:04,520 Sang before Jesus. How we can? 115 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:08,520 Sing it now in. Jesus and how in a way we will 116 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:10,920 sing it again in a unique way one day. 117 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:12,760 We're still waiting to sing the full. 118 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:15,280 Expression of this. Does that make sense? 119 00:05:15,280 --> 00:05:16,400 So. They used to sing it. 120 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:18,360 Let's learn that we could sing it now in. 121 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:21,040 Christ, we will sing it one day in Christ we're going to look. 122 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:24,160 At past, present, future. Of Psalm 118 and my. 123 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:27,600 Hope is that even the imagery of what it means to be a human 124 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:30,760 being you would leave here feeling like you're behind your 125 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:33,920 king with a family on route. To a day. 126 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:37,480 That will find its. Fullness in Psalm 118, and that 127 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:40,680 will change how we live. Does that sound good? 128 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:43,400 OK. So I got those three points 129 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:45,720 past, present and future. If you already, let me hear you 130 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:48,640 say I'm ready. OK, let's talk about the past. 131 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:51,400 Let's talk about the past. Let's remember. 132 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:54,720 The rescue I want to. Quickly show you the structure I 133 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:56,000 just alluded to. So just. 134 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:59,440 Glance with me. At verses one through. 135 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:02,560 Four, what you'll notice there. Is it's just that that? 136 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:03,520 Refrain. We even opened our. 137 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:05,400 Service with here. Today, like some statements. 138 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:08,520 About God's goodness and then everyone responds to steadfast 139 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:11,240 love endures forever four times. A cool little. 140 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:15,600 Side note, there is the. If you look at verse 3 it says 141 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:18,280 or verse 2 it says let Israel say verse three, let the House 142 00:06:18,280 --> 00:06:19,720 of. Aaron say verse 4 let. 143 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:22,760 Those who fear the Lord. Say that kind of hyperlinks. 144 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:25,040 To to Psalm 115. That we did a few. 145 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:27,800 Weeks back with Pastor. John, that was an incredible 146 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:29,320 sermon. If you didn't hear it, pull it 147 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:31,080 up on Apple Podcast. Or Spotify. 148 00:06:31,280 --> 00:06:33,200 You need to. Listen to Psalm 115 be. 149 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:36,040 Taught similar kind of structure, but then look at 150 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:38,680 verse 5. So it was. 151 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:40,680 All of us just singing about the Steadfast. 152 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:43,600 Love of the Lord, verse 5 says. Out of my distress. 153 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:46,520 I called on the Lord so it. Shifts to this individual. 154 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:50,760 It shifts to a distress that he. Was in and the Lord. 155 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:56,320 Set him free verse 10 all nations surrounded this 156 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:58,320 individual in the name of the. Lord, I cut. 157 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:02,760 Them off so somehow he was surrounded, he was in trouble. 158 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:06,880 He was almost haunted down right but he made it out. 159 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:11,000 Verse 14 the Lord is my strength and my song. 160 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:16,560 He has become my salvation. Verse 17 I shall not die, but I 161 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:18,000 shall. Live and recount the deeds of 162 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:19,960 the. Lord, OK, so remember. 163 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:22,400 You've got a group. Following this king. 164 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:25,160 Now look at what happens in verse 19. 165 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:28,240 That individual. Says. 166 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:30,520 Open to me. The gates of righteousness, 167 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:32,080 that. I may enter through. 168 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:33,680 Them and give thanks to. The Lord. 169 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:40,000 Now imagine like a priest at the temple saying verse 20 this. 170 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:41,920 Is the gate of the. Lord, the righteous shall enter 171 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:44,920 through it. Kind of like only certain people 172 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:48,600 can come through and then. Back to the the individual. 173 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:50,880 I thank you that you have answered me and have become my 174 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:53,200 salvation, the Stone. That the builders rejected has. 175 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:56,080 Become the cornerstone. This is the Lord's doing. 176 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:57,400 It is marvelous. In our eyes, this. 177 00:07:57,400 --> 00:07:58,680 Is the day. That the Lord has made. 178 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:00,720 Let us rejoice and be glad in it. 179 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:04,080 And then you can almost imagine the whole group shouting out. 180 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:05,880 Save us, we pray, O Lord, O Lord, we pray. 181 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:09,320 Give us success. Verse 26 Some of you already 182 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:10,960 kind of know this is a famous. One of the new. 183 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:13,360 Testament Blessed is he who comes in the name of the. 184 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:15,160 Lord, we bless. You from the house. 185 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:17,000 Of the Lord. The Lord is God. 186 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:18,720 And he has made his light to shine upon. 187 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:21,840 Us bind the feastal. Sacrifice of the. 188 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:25,400 Cords up to the horns. Of the altar you are my. 189 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:27,160 God, and I'll give thanks to you. 190 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:28,080 You are my God. I will. 191 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:29,920 Extol you I'll. Give thanks to the Lord. 192 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:32,120 For he is good. For his steadfast love endures 193 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:34,360 forever, OK? So there's kind of that 194 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:37,120 structure we alluded. To and there's all kinds of 195 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:38,960 books. Debating who's speaking at each 196 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:41,799 moment of each verse and. There's a lot of value in that, 197 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:43,280 but I hope. You all get the general 198 00:08:43,799 --> 00:08:47,840 structure. OK, Psalm 1. 18 is a song of. 199 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:49,440 Rescue. Somebody say rescue. 200 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:52,200 This is a song. The people of God. 201 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:55,480 Used to sing when they. Thought about the rescue God 202 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:56,040 had. Done. 203 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:58,760 There are two events in the Old Testament if you're new to your 204 00:08:58,760 --> 00:08:59,840 Bible. You just got to get. 205 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:02,320 Really familiar with that kind of shape, the. 206 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:05,280 Landscape of the Old Testament. They rhyme with schmexitus and 207 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:08,600 schmexile OK. It's called Exodus and Exile. 208 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:11,760 Those two moments kind of define their identity as a. 209 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:13,520 People OK the. Exodus. 210 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:17,120 Somebody say Exodus. The Exodus is when the people of 211 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:18,320 God. Were set free from. 212 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:21,280 Slavery to Egypt? OK, Egypt had control. 213 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:23,960 Of them they were enslaved. And God LED them out through the 214 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:25,240 10. Plagues through the splitting of 215 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:26,760 the red. Sea through the Passover. 216 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:29,240 Lamb being instituted. They walk out. 217 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:31,800 OK, now there are new. People in the wilderness. 218 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:32,640 They get the. Law. 219 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:34,520 They're headed the promised. Land, all that good stuff. 220 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:38,680 OK, now the second kind of major theme. 221 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:41,440 Is the exile. One of the things. 222 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:43,360 God told his people. Is I'm gonna teach you how to be 223 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:44,920 a new people. I'm gonna give you my law. 224 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:47,080 I'm gonna teach you how to live in my land, but. 225 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:49,400 If you fail to trust. My covenant. 226 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:52,320 Faithfulness and show the nations how I'm different. 227 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:56,720 The land itself will spit. You out the warning was. 228 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:59,000 Always if you are. Idolatrous and become like the 229 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:00,880 nations, then the nations. Are going to take you. 230 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:03,480 That's what's going to happen, and God told them that. 231 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:05,640 A lot of different. Ways a lot of different warnings 232 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:08,560 and loving. Ways and and they became like 233 00:10:08,560 --> 00:10:10,320 the nations and the land spit them out. 234 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:13,600 Most famously in Five. 86 BC. The Babylonians. 235 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:15,880 Took them over and they pulled them out of their land. 236 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:19,640 OK, But God sustained them. He was. 237 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:22,480 Gracious to them and he's. He sustained them in the midst 238 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:24,520 of exile. And this is books like Daniel 239 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:27,080 and all those books in the Old Testament, these amazing stories 240 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:31,240 of God sustaining grace, and then he brings them back. 241 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:35,360 And then an amazing thing happens where like Nehemiah and 242 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:38,240 Ezra, they come back and they rebuild a temple and walls. 243 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:39,520 And that's where a lot. Of the old. 244 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:42,080 Testament structure starts. To make sense, so I want to 245 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:42,760 show. You what I just. 246 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:44,800 Explained to you on a chart. Real quick, check this out. 247 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:50,320 OK, here's basically the idea the Exodus is a big deal. 248 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:52,600 God's people get LED out of slavery. 249 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:55,160 And they sing Psalm 118 at the Passover. 250 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:56,920 Year over year over year. OK. 251 00:10:57,680 --> 00:10:59,720 And even like verse 14 that are read. 252 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:03,000 Over you is a direct. Quotation of Exodus 15 two which 253 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:05,320 they sing. It's called Moses song 254 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:07,640 immediately. After getting out of Egypt, OK. 255 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:12,040 Now they also sing this. Psalm thinking about the exile. 256 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:14,360 Not just about Exodus. They think back to like God 257 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:16,320 didn't let them totally dominate us. 258 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:19,240 He didn't let Nebuchadnezzar thought he was the most powerful 259 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:20,920 dude in the world, and he kind of had his way. 260 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:22,600 But you know what? God sustained us. 261 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:26,240 Let's sing of the steadfast love of the Lord forever, and then 262 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:28,000 you'll know what we're back in our land now. 263 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,440 And it's not perfect, and this temple isn't as good as the one 264 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:33,600 Solomon built, but we're back and Nehemiah builds the walls 265 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:36,640 and Ezra and all the things. So they would sing this song to 266 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:37,960 remind themselves of what God did. 267 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:41,120 Once in the Exodus. His sustaining grace. 268 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:44,720 In the exile. And now again in the Ezra 269 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:47,160 Nehemiah days of like look. God has brought us back. 270 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:51,120 And they keep singing it, longing for the one king who 271 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:53,480 would make it ultimately true. Does that make sense? 272 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:56,680 So it's a way of reminding themselves what he did and 273 00:11:56,680 --> 00:11:59,080 asking him to keep. Being that save us O. 274 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:01,680 Lord, we pray. Like it's still a prayer as 275 00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:03,600 well. Does that make sense? 276 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:04,720 If it makes sense, let me hear you say. 277 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:07,560 Sense, OK. The idea is God keeps. 278 00:12:07,560 --> 00:12:10,160 Delivering and his people keep singing. 279 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:12,680 God delivers, They sing. God delivers. 280 00:12:12,680 --> 00:12:15,120 They sing, God delivers, they sing, they're in trouble, and 281 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:17,920 they sing to remind themselves of the deliverance that happened 282 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:18,960 once. That's still our God. 283 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:22,360 That's still our God. It's a reminder that no matter 284 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:24,680 what the. Steadfast love of the. 285 00:12:24,680 --> 00:12:27,920 Lord endures forever. So is Psalm 118 about the exile 286 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:29,680 from Exodus? Yes. 287 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:33,360 I'm sorry, the the exodus. Y'all y'all get what I'm saying? 288 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:36,960 Is it about God sustaining grace in the midst of? 289 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:39,040 Hardship in. Exile when you are taking. 290 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:40,680 Over. And your life looks terrible, 291 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,000 yes. Is it about how God brought them 292 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:44,880 back and is? Faithful to his promises. 293 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:47,280 Yes, it's about all. Of them and. 294 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:50,880 Is it about the one true king, the cornerstone who was still to 295 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:53,440 come? Yes, that's how they used to. 296 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:56,600 Sing this song, So what? Do we do with that? 297 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:58,360 What do we learn? From how they've sang it for 298 00:12:58,360 --> 00:12:59,960 thousands of. Years #1. 299 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:05,920 God's past activity has always shaped his people's current 300 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:08,480 trust. What he did has. 301 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:11,800 Always dictated my current. Trust he did that I. 302 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:13,720 Trust him, he did. That I trust Him. 303 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:17,600 Look with me at verses 8 and 9. Look with me at verses 8:00 and 304 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:21,320 9:00. So when talking about being 305 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:22,680 delivered in. Distress all this. 306 00:13:22,680 --> 00:13:25,200 It says it is better. Somebody say better? 307 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:28,320 To take refuge in the Lord than to trust. 308 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:30,640 In man it is. Better to take refuge. 309 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:33,920 In the Lord than to trust in Princess and y'all think about 310 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:37,280 that in context. They might be in exile singing 311 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:39,280 that and it's reminding themselves it's. 312 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:41,640 Better y'all to. Trust in the Lord than to have 313 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:44,120 all the power, than to know. The person with the power. 314 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:47,720 Who can do what they want to do and could give me the good life 315 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:50,640 quickly. So they would sing this song to 316 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:52,400 remind themselves it's. Better to trust. 317 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:57,320 The Lord, no matter our. Circumstances we trust the Lord, 318 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:00,400 it is better. Now it's kind of a crazy. 319 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:02,320 Statement like think about. If you were like the. 320 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:04,600 Son or daughter of somebody? With a lot of power. 321 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:06,400 Who could get? How do you get a? 322 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:08,920 Christmas gift for LeBron James. Kid, you know what I mean? 323 00:14:09,560 --> 00:14:12,560 What you going to get them? They ain't got, you know. 324 00:14:12,560 --> 00:14:16,480 But in a way, y'all, it is better to trust in the Lord than 325 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:19,000 to trust somebody who could give you all. 326 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:22,680 Princess had all the power. It's better than to be the son 327 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:25,320 of a political figure, to trust the Lord. 328 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:30,240 It's better to know him even in the midst of difficulty, and to 329 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:31,920 trust him. Take refuge. 330 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:35,000 In him than it is. To have an easy life. 331 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:38,160 To have easy. Access to whatever your heart 332 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:39,840 desires. And to be able to get out. 333 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:42,120 Of trouble. So y'all. 334 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:44,320 How are we doing with trusting the? 335 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:46,800 Lord, regardless of our circumstances. 336 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:50,040 Are we running to the? Lord for refuge. 337 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:54,440 And that just means REST. Where does your soul go to rest? 338 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:56,840 I think we don't quite see the link. 339 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:59,720 Between trust and rest. What you go to where? 340 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:01,880 Your mind wanders when nobody's around. 341 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:04,680 You Daydream is more linked. To what you trust. 342 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:06,720 Than what you say you. Trust you. 343 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:08,880 Trust what you go to to give you rest. 344 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:11,120 When your head hits that. Pillow and you start 345 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:13,040 daydreaming. That's what you trust. 346 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:17,440 Being wanted by people, winning, hitting that next thing, 347 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:19,040 grabbing that money, getting that comfortable. 348 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:20,920 Life. If that's where you go to rest 349 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:24,400 to escape, What if? Where we escape is actually what 350 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:26,280 we're. Trusting to give us life. 351 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:29,560 There's a great link between your refuge and your. 352 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:34,360 Trust, so that's the first thing we got to wrestle with. 353 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:37,080 Secondly, this history of singing. 354 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:40,760 The Psalm this way shows us that the goal of God's rescue has. 355 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:43,240 Always been to enter God's presence. 356 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:47,520 The goal of. Rescue has always been presence. 357 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:50,040 OK. So the idea is the. 358 00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:53,400 King has won a battle and immediately takes his people. 359 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:55,320 To the temple. Do you see that the? 360 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:58,440 Goal of rescue. Is to enter the presence of God, 361 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:01,440 to go near the altar, to draw to him in confidence. 362 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:06,000 So the goal of being delivered from sin, from death, from 363 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,040 Satan, isn't just to. Get out of. 364 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:11,880 Trouble, but it's to be brought into the presence of God. 365 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:16,000 See how that I'm delivered? From myself, from sin. 366 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:18,440 Some of us need to be. Delivered from ourselves. 367 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:20,160 Hello somebody. That's the worst. 368 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:21,560 Part about life apart from Christ. 369 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:24,480 Is all you got Is you you got. Nobody to blame for your. 370 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:25,360 Problems but you. Amen. 371 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:28,880 It's it's a hard, humbling thing, you gotta admit. 372 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:30,400 But you gotta admit it. You're the problem. 373 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:35,120 But once delivered, He's not just taking you from trouble. 374 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:39,480 He's trying to deliver you to His presence, to worship, to 375 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:43,280 enjoyment of God. And some of us still look at the 376 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:45,160 Christian. Life like it's primarily 377 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:46,840 getting. Out of trouble? 378 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:51,080 Y'all that is not. God's goal for your life. 379 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:54,160 Y'all heaven is to come if you are in Christ. 380 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:57,720 Hell is not, and we praise God that judgment does not fall on. 381 00:16:57,720 --> 00:16:59,920 Us. It falls on Christ, but more 382 00:16:59,920 --> 00:17:03,120 than I get removal. Of judgment I get. 383 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:06,200 Entrance into his presence. I get God I. 384 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:10,040 Get the altar I. Get the Son, I get the Spirit, I 385 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:12,560 go. To the Father with confidence. 386 00:17:13,839 --> 00:17:16,960 So y'all, is that you? Are you living a life where 387 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:18,960 you're delivered into God's presence? 388 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:23,200 Are you just like, I know what I'm delivered from and I just 389 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:25,400 kind of do my thing and my conscience feels clear? 390 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:29,200 Y'all God died. For you to bring you to himself. 391 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:31,720 So that's how. Remembering the rescue has 392 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:32,960 always. Shaped the people of God. 393 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:36,120 Let's talk about how. In the present through the 394 00:17:36,120 --> 00:17:39,040 person. Of Jesus, this changes in the 395 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:40,880 present. We going to rejoice in the day. 396 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:43,200 Let's talk about this a little bit, y'all. 397 00:17:43,360 --> 00:17:46,440 Jesus is the fulfillment of all the themes of this Psalm, right? 398 00:17:47,120 --> 00:17:50,720 First of all, the exodus. Verses 10 through 14 I mentioned 399 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:54,240 to you are sung in the Psalm of Moses things just like this, 400 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:56,000 this idea that all nations surrounded me. 401 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:57,440 In the name of the Lord, I cut them off. 402 00:17:57,720 --> 00:17:59,600 They surrounded me, surrounded me on every side. 403 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:01,000 In the name of the Lord I cut them off. 404 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:03,640 They surrounded me like bees. They went out like a fire among 405 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:05,120 thorns. In the name of the Lord I cut 406 00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:07,360 them off. I was pushed hard so that I was 407 00:18:07,360 --> 00:18:08,960 willing. So that I was. 408 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:11,120 Falling, but the Lord helped me, the Lord. 409 00:18:11,120 --> 00:18:15,680 Is my strength and my song. He has become my salvation. 410 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:18,640 Y'all the ultimate. Exodus of the People. 411 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:22,480 Of God is not from Egypt y'all, it's from sin. 412 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:26,800 It's from slavery to death. It's from Satan and the person 413 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:28,000 of. Jesus, we have the. 414 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,280 Ultimate exodus. We have the ultimate We're 415 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:34,600 getting out of prison to ourselves, to bondage. 416 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:38,400 Jesus is the one. Y'all who can sing this song 417 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:41,560 ultimately? Because he was defeated. 418 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:44,840 By death y'all the way that our. King wins. 419 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:48,080 For us, the way he is victorious was by. 420 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:50,400 Being defeated was by being. Crushed, he is the. 421 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:53,840 Passover lamb. He doesn't take somebody else's 422 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:55,720 blood and wipe it on the door. He is the lamb. 423 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:57,000 He is. He is the one who was. 424 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:01,200 Crushed for us so that His blood could be applied to our lives, 425 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:03,880 He sets us free. Through his atoning, 426 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:08,680 sacrificial, substitutionary. Work, but he's also. 427 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:12,920 The end to exile. He is also the one who brings us 428 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:16,360 out of the slavery that our own sin brings. 429 00:19:16,360 --> 00:19:19,400 Upon us and the consequences. Of it, the most famous verse in 430 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:21,640 all of these. Comes in verse 22. 431 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:26,400 The Stone. That the builders rejected has. 432 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:31,960 Become the cornerstone. Somebody say cornerstone, you 433 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:33,960 know the new. Testament writers are all over 434 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:36,920 this, but the basic. Idea is that in every building 435 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:39,680 there is a stone. Like it's it's the foundational 436 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:43,120 stone, without which. Nothing can be built and the. 437 00:19:43,120 --> 00:19:45,720 Imagery of the temple. In the Old Testament was. 438 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:49,200 This idea that God would. Dwell was the connection of 439 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:51,040 heaven and earth is. Kind of what the temple? 440 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:53,960 Represented OK and in the New Testament. 441 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:55,680 Era in the person of. Christ. 442 00:19:56,360 --> 00:19:57,800 God says all throughout the book of Acts. 443 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:00,560 God has never dwelt in places built by human. 444 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:02,960 Hands. It was an imagery gifted to us 445 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:04,400 so that when the person of Christ. 446 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:07,160 Fulfilled it. We see now that the temple has 447 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:09,200 gone viral. The temple is us. 448 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:10,480 The temple is the. People. 449 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:13,720 Of God united to the. Father by the Son through the 450 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:17,280 Spirit in Jesus Christ is that cornerstone first? 451 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:20,120 Peter 2 tells us that. We are being built up into a 452 00:20:20,120 --> 00:20:23,480 spiritual house. On him and I'm not I'm not. 453 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:25,200 A Mason. I'm not a I'm not a stone guy. 454 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:26,440 I'm not a brick. Guy, but I did. 455 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:28,920 Grow up on the job site with my dad and we had these if you've. 456 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:30,680 Ever been to a job? Site. 457 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:32,520 There'll just be a stack of two by fours. 458 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:35,000 Think like when you go to Lowe's or Home Depot like Alden. 459 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,160 Boards just like a. Giant pallet stack. 460 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:40,120 Of two by fours. And I remember I was. 461 00:20:40,120 --> 00:20:41,600 Copying like I didn't know what I was doing. 462 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:43,520 But I remember the adults. They would do this thing where 463 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:44,840 they. Cut the little black. 464 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:46,520 Things that hold it down, you better watch out. 465 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:47,680 That's one of the things I got to learn. 466 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:50,920 Some things like and they almost smack you and hurts you well, 467 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:52,040 once. Those are off and you pull the 468 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:54,240 plastic off. They would all take every board. 469 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,040 And they would look at it. They would squint and look down 470 00:20:57,040 --> 00:20:58,200 it. Because the idea is. 471 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:01,280 You don't want warped boards. Being used in your walls, right? 472 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:02,800 So you would. Squint and look at it. 473 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:06,000 And if it was super curved you would toss it to the side then 474 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:07,560 you look at it so you get a straight 1 then. 475 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:08,920 You would use it to. Build your walls. 476 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:12,480 You all this image. That the New Testament picks up 477 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:15,600 on is that the. Leaders of Israel the the the 478 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:17,680 people. Put in position to be. 479 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:20,680 Looking for Messiah? They did this with Jesus. 480 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:21,720 They took him. They picked. 481 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:23,800 Up the board. Looked at him crooked. 482 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:25,200 Saw he was. Warped and tossed him. 483 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:28,600 Not usable, not cornerstone material. 484 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:31,800 The stone that the. Builders rejected like the. 485 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:34,040 People who should have been looking for him. 486 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:38,920 Has become the cornerstone in Acts. 4 That's what Peter says 487 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:41,360 to the religious leaders. He quotes this verse. 488 00:21:41,360 --> 00:21:43,040 It says y'all did that. Y'all killed him. 489 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:44,760 Y'all was supposed to be looking for him, but y'all did it. 490 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:47,800 And it's not just the. Builders, it's not just the 491 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:51,040 leaders, y'all That image of picking up Jesus and looking at 492 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:52,880 him and thinking he's warped and tossing them. 493 00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:54,840 That's what we all do in our sin. 494 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:58,840 Y'all ultimately what sin is. Is to take the Son of God. 495 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,560 Even in our ignorance, we do this all the time. 496 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:04,560 We. Know that God made all things 497 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:06,440 you can wake up. Be seven years. 498 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:08,560 Old and just recognize you ain't make yourself, you ain't make 499 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:10,280 your mom and daddy. This came from somewhere. 500 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:12,120 Who is it? God, you don't. 501 00:22:12,120 --> 00:22:13,720 Even have to know. All the all the stuff. 502 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:15,520 Yet but you know and you just suppress. 503 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:17,320 That but then once you hear the message. 504 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:19,880 Of Jesus once you read the gospels, once you're. 505 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:22,680 Exposed to who he is. What you do and you're saying is 506 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:24,440 you look at him. You pick him up. 507 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:27,280 You. Size him up, Messiah Healer. 508 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:31,560 Sermon on the Mount Giver. And we look at him and we toss 509 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:34,720 him. Unfit to build my life on. 510 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:37,760 No thanks. Sometimes we use arguments. 511 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:40,040 We Google enough information to dismiss him. 512 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:43,120 We Google some argument somewhere from a tik. 513 00:22:43,120 --> 00:22:46,160 Toker or whatever it is. But it starts in the heart that. 514 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:48,880 Dismissal isn't in the brain, it's in your heart. 515 00:22:49,360 --> 00:22:52,920 I don't want a cornerstone. Y'all, to dismiss him is to say. 516 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:54,760 I got it. I'm the cornerstone. 517 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:57,640 I'm building my life on me. I'll make my own religion. 518 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:01,120 I'm spiritual but not religious. That's my. 519 00:23:01,120 --> 00:23:04,960 Favorite, which is a way. And y'all, there's a time where 520 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:07,240 I would have said something like that, but behind that is a 521 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:11,440 posture of I got it. And whatever Jesus I got, I got 522 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:14,360 it. I choose what I got and I got 523 00:23:14,360 --> 00:23:16,560 it. In all of us. 524 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:20,760 Is this heart that just says? To Jesus on his terms. 525 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:26,440 I got it. That was me. 526 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,080 So what do we do with that? What What should we do in light 527 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:31,320 of the fact that Christ has come and. 528 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:34,320 Fulfilled these things #1. Trust Christ the. 529 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:35,880 Cornerstone. Trust him. 530 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,440 Y'all, he is the fulfillment of everything that we need. 531 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:42,200 That this song points to y'all. We need a king who wins the 532 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,240 battle. We need a king who chops the 533 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:46,680 head off the giant we need. A king to go in. 534 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:50,280 To the thick of it and win it. We need a king who can be sworn 535 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:52,520 by the bees and not be over. We need a. 536 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:54,080 Winner. We need a champion. 537 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:56,720 Your soul was made. To have a champion and friend, 538 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:59,960 you are not that champion. You need a champion. 539 00:23:59,960 --> 00:24:03,000 You're not the champion. You are not the center of your. 540 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,080 Story. Y'all, we need a priest. 541 00:24:05,120 --> 00:24:07,280 We need somebody. Standing at the the temple. 542 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:08,720 Saying only the righteous may enter. 543 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:11,320 We need somebody righteous enough that the. 544 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:13,520 Gates could be open. To them, we need somebody. 545 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:15,160 Who can go in for? US. 546 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:18,200 Y'all, we need a king. We need. 547 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:19,720 We need. This figure who can. 548 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:21,400 Do all of this. We need somebody to. 549 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:23,920 Actually make the payment. We need the Lamb of God. 550 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,400 Jesus is all. Of those things, he's prophet, 551 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:28,400 he's priest, he's king, he's lamb. 552 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:32,280 And y'all I just want. To call you to trust him if. 553 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:34,480 You are not a believer. In Jesus Christ. 554 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:37,280 What I mean by that is you need to. 555 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,280 Trust him. You need to surrender to Him, 556 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:44,040 submit to Him, acknowledge in your heart, in your mind, with. 557 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:47,200 Your will. Submit yourself before him and 558 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:48,600 say. God, I did. 559 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:53,080 Size you up and I did toss you. And what you're going to have to 560 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:54,280 let go of is things like but I've. 561 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:56,640 Always been in church. My Mama taught me that. 562 00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:59,680 I know that I know. That you're the cornerstone. 563 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:02,560 Even knowing he is, that is not trusting him as. 564 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:04,040 That. It's not building your life. 565 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:07,520 On it, this isn't about information, this is your heart. 566 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:13,440 Surrendering and submitting. To a king that you are not and 567 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:15,760 you have to acknowledge. That you looked at them. 568 00:25:16,120 --> 00:25:19,760 Warped and tossed them and thought you would be. 569 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,080 A better God to yourself. Than he would be to you and it's 570 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:26,120 to say God I was wrong. I'm sorry, forgive me, it's a 571 00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:28,200 believers in the room. Y'all cornerstone means you 572 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:29,680 build. Everything on it cornerstone. 573 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:30,680 Means he the ball. See. 574 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:33,600 The king he in. Charge you, are we? 575 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:35,680 Building our life. On this cornerstone? 576 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:37,960 Or is Jesus more like a mascot? Is. 577 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,160 He more just in the. Background of your life and it's 578 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:43,520 just, you know, morality being blessed in Jesus name, Let's 579 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:46,080 throw him on top. Or is he the. 580 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,760 Center of everything is he. The foundation of everything 581 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:52,600 you. Do secondly y'all. 582 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,840 One of the most famous verses in this Psalm as well comes in 583 00:25:55,840 --> 00:26:01,120 verse 24. This is the day. 584 00:26:01,120 --> 00:26:03,320 That the Lord has made Let us rejoice and be glad in it. 585 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:04,480 The. Second thing we could do is 586 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:06,840 rejoice in the day. If you've never heard this song, 587 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:08,880 I hope we get. Stuck in your head, This is the 588 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,480 day. This is the day that the Lord 589 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:13,840 has made, that the Lord has made. 590 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:18,560 I will rejoice. I will rejoice and be glad in it 591 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:20,640 and be glad in it. And all the church kids are 592 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:25,880 like. This is the day the Lord. 593 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:28,600 OK but y'all what I? Didn't know because I seen that 594 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:30,440 with my kids. What I did not know. 595 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:33,200 Is it's basically. In the New Testament Christ 596 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,360 centered version, it's the way. Of saying Christ is risen. 597 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:37,680 Like. That's what you're saying the. 598 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:39,720 King is alive the. King took us into the. 599 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,800 Temple, this is his day. Christ is risen. 600 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:44,440 This is the day that he has made. 601 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:45,880 Let us rejoice and be glad in it. 602 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:49,160 When the Psalmist says it in that context, he just walked 603 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:50,600 past. The temple gates. 604 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:54,240 And brought all of God's people in verse 23 right before it. 605 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:56,760 This is the Lord's doing. It is marvelous in our eyes. 606 00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,000 This is the day. This is Resurrection Day. 607 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,320 This. Is king, you know the the enemy 608 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:02,880 has been. Defeated, I survived. 609 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:04,880 So it's not just an. Arbitrary. 610 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:06,520 This is what I want you to hear, because many of us are in this 611 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,480 headspace. Rejoicing is a. 612 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:12,480 Good attitude to have as. Good Christians, and you should 613 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,120 have it. That is true. 614 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:18,120 We should be a joyful people. But y'all, joy is not just a 615 00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:20,240 choice. Of attitude that you should 616 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,440 elect to have. It is operating. 617 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:25,760 Within reality that. Christ is risen. 618 00:27:26,120 --> 00:27:28,400 It is a volitional. Choice to get. 619 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,200 Aligned with the fact that. This is his day, he. 620 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:35,440 Is risen, and no matter what you're going through, this is 621 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:37,920 his day, not yours, and that's part of the. 622 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,640 Beauty of it. Is I'm not defined by if this 623 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:43,840 turns around for me, I'm not defined by if this goes right 624 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:45,920 for me. I'm not defined by if I get my 625 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:50,000 way because this is the day and one day this is going to be made 626 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,120 right one day. I won't have to struggle. 627 00:27:52,120 --> 00:27:55,480 With this, no more one. Day this is going to end and I 628 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:58,320 will be with him face to face. This is his day. 629 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:02,000 Is not mine. So when we sing that song, it's 630 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,800 a rebellion. Against all the ways that we 631 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:06,320 feel like we're. Behind in life? 632 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:08,880 Like our life doesn't matter. Because I'm not getting this or 633 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,440 comparing to people. It's a rebellion against the 634 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:14,240 Kingdom of self that says. How is this your day? 635 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,400 It's to say this isn't my day. This is the day the Lord has 636 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:19,000 made. I will rejoice and be glad in 637 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:20,720 it. An artist just came out with the 638 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:21,560 song. That's what he said. 639 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:26,400 Because today is the day that. The Lord has made. 640 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:27,960 I will rejoice and be glad in it. 641 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:29,720 I will rejoice and be glad in it. 642 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:33,120 This is the day, even with all the bad in it, I will rejoice 643 00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:35,960 and be glad in it because God's got my back, which we'll get 644 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:39,880 into here in a minute. And to some of y'all, I just 645 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:43,120 want to call you to join the group following the king, you 646 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:44,720 know. The other piece of this. 647 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:47,000 Psalm is like, it's not just you and the Lord, it's. 648 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,080 Us like we're. We're following our king. 649 00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:51,440 And we're going and we're singing this song and we'll just 650 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:52,920 invite you to get in. You know what I'm saying? 651 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,240 We got a champion. I'm not a champion. 652 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:57,160 I got a champion. And that's. 653 00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,360 What the church is we're. The people behind the. 654 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:01,280 King, we're the people on the way to the temple. 655 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,600 We're the people, not. Saying this that we're not. 656 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:05,920 Just the happy go lucky this is the day. 657 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,200 And if that's. What you thought we were, We 658 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:09,360 might. Be that sometimes, But what 659 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:12,240 we're trying to be is Christ has risen like this is his day. 660 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:15,080 Getting behind him. And our life might be going to. 661 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:18,000 Chaos, but God is good. And we are following him. 662 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:20,160 Third thing for. Us to consider. 663 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:23,080 Before we close is what is the future? 664 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,800 Of us singing this song. So it's been transformed by the 665 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:28,400 coming of Christ. We can sing it now. 666 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:30,800 This is His. Day, but y'all, we're going. 667 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:32,840 To sing it again. In a different way. 668 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:39,840 Look with me at verse 26. Blessed is he who comes in the 669 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:43,200 name of the Lord. Those of y'all that know your 670 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:47,240 New Testament, this is what the. People of God shouted. 671 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:51,480 As they lined the streets and King Jesus came walking down on 672 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,040 top of a. Donkey and they were shouting 673 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,560 Hosanna. Blessed is he who comes in the 674 00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:59,840 name of the. Lord the the imagery was King 675 00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:03,920 Jesus was walking into Jerusalem to the temple, and what's so 676 00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,400 cool now if you. Go reread it knowing Psalm 118. 677 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:09,200 The first time he did this he rode in on the donkey, people 678 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,280 shouting hosanna bless who comes in the name of the Lord. 679 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:13,280 He goes to the temple not to throw a party. 680 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:15,600 But what did he do? Flip tables. 681 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:19,240 He was like, because, right? Because the temple was not what 682 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,240 it ought to be. It had become a a place where 683 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:23,760 the nations weren't there praying the way that. 684 00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:26,120 God intended to in Isaiah it had become. 685 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:28,480 Just a place of commerce. A place where the people with 686 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:31,520 power got their way. That was the first time coming. 687 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:33,760 He came to cleanse the temple. He came to die and. 688 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:37,280 Rebuild the temple in his body. By resurrecting 3 days later, 689 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:41,360 but y'all? We will sing this again. 690 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,720 And in a way, we now are the ones saying. 691 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:47,200 Blessed is he who comes. The name of the Lord Jesus isn't 692 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,880 coming a first time. As we sing it now, he's coming 693 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:51,800 back. And when he comes? 694 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:55,920 Back y'all, it's game over y'all, we live in between his 695 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:57,840 first victory. And his second one, we live in 696 00:30:57,840 --> 00:30:59,320 the already. But not yet. 697 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:02,880 We live where sin has been defeated in. 698 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,640 Christ where Satan has been. Crushed but y'all there's. 699 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:08,040 Still a war going on and we can sing. 700 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:09,680 You need to sing. Blessed is he who. 701 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:11,160 Comes the name of the Lord Maranatha. 702 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,840 Come, Lord. Jesus, we. 703 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:17,080 Long for Christ's return. Things are not the way they 704 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:20,920 ought to be. We get so addicted to stuff. 705 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:22,920 Life is hard. People are getting. 706 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,560 Dominated by sin, dominated by generational patterns, dominated 707 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:28,840 by. Hardship and our hearts break. 708 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,560 And we sing. Blessed is he who comes in the 709 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,520 name of the Lord. Blessed is the one who comes and 710 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:36,160 wins. Blessed is the one who ushers. 711 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,880 In the people of God to the. Temple to sing with him. 712 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:43,720 So two things to do. Looking towards the future 713 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,400 number one. Y'all just long for that? 714 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,760 Day long for the day. We all all your. 715 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:54,720 Sin is gone, no more pain, no more sadness, no more 716 00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,000 brokenness. And you were just shouting 717 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,360 Hosanna following him. To the temple. 718 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,200 For all this to culminate. There'll be no sun there. 719 00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:06,400 He exists in. Everlasting light, as we saying. 720 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:10,880 Earlier there will be. Just such fulfilment and total 721 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,840 joy. Just long for the day where we 722 00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:17,760 sing this fully, where it's fully realized in Christ. 723 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:22,080 Long for that. Long for your champion to just 724 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,480 step up and you're just shouting louder than you've ever shouted 725 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:26,960 and you're just following him. You're not. 726 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:30,160 On trial, Christ has won. There's nothing to prove, it's 727 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:31,800 just totally gone all the energy. 728 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,040 We use to prove ourselves. It's just gone. 729 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,000 We're just so fixated on Christ and what he did, and we're just 730 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:38,800 following. With our brothers and sisters. 731 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:43,240 From every nation, tribe and Song following him second. 732 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:48,520 Live Today like the Lord. Is on your side. 733 00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:58,520 Look with me at verse 6/6 and seven the. 734 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:03,360 Lord is on my. Side I will not fear what can 735 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:07,520 man do to me the. Lord is on my side as my. 736 00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:10,240 Helper, I shall look in triumph on those who hate me, y'all? 737 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,960 Because of Jesus. God is on your side. 738 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:17,960 God is on your side. As Paul. 739 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:19,880 Says in Romans 8 if. God is for us. 740 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:21,280 Who? Can be against. 741 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:23,400 Us. The idea is nobody. 742 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:26,800 He who did not spare his own son, but gave him up for us all, 743 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:30,160 how will he not also? With him graciously give you all 744 00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:32,080 things. And y'all. 745 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:34,760 That is an interpretive lens. Through which you can. 746 00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,320 See your life. God is on your side. 747 00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:39,720 I don't know what you're going. Through, but God is on your 748 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:41,760 side. In it we think if. 749 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,200 God was on my side. This would not be happening, but 750 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:46,600 friend, please, I'm begging you God. 751 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:48,640 Is on your side, Christ? Is risen. 752 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:52,000 This is the day y'all. What is happening to you doesn't 753 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:53,200 dictate. God's love for you. 754 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,960 He's. On your side in it. 755 00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:58,760 He didn't die just to pull. You out, he died to. 756 00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:01,080 Get in with you, he is on your side. 757 00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:05,640 As your helper. God wants to help you. 758 00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:08,560 God wants to be with you. God wants to show. 759 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:10,560 You How for you he. Is. 760 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:15,040 And we see. That clearly when we're behind 761 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:16,520 King. Jesus, you see that? 762 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:20,639 We believe it now as we sing and see the risen Christ. 763 00:34:20,639 --> 00:34:23,320 We believe he's on our side. But what we? 764 00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:26,400 Tend to do is we want to lead the procession, we want to be 765 00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:28,920 the champion and then everything that happens. 766 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:30,400 Isn't being filtered through Christ. 767 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,480 Because we have no filter, we're just looking at it the idea. 768 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,199 Is when I back up and he's in front of me it just changes. 769 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:38,880 How I filter whatever comes to me, you got to go through. 770 00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:40,199 Him. Does that make sense? 771 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:42,480 Like we're united to the Father through the Son by the. 772 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:46,639 Spirit, whatever happens to you? Has to go through him and he's. 773 00:34:46,639 --> 00:34:50,320 On your side in it, but we have an ability to be like just watch 774 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:53,639 out, Lord, let me let me just slide. 775 00:34:53,639 --> 00:34:55,719 On up to the front here and it's like, go ahead, man. 776 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:57,560 God does this crazy. Thing where he lets you. 777 00:34:57,880 --> 00:34:58,840 And then you get. There. 778 00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:00,320 And you're like, where's the Lord? 779 00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:06,560 I thought he loved me. Let him back in the front man. 780 00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:10,640 So I just want to invite you. To see that the. 781 00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:13,120 Lord is on your. Side there is a day. 782 00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:15,720 Coming where we sing this and you'll. 783 00:35:15,720 --> 00:35:17,680 See it all it'll. All make sense. 784 00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:19,480 He'll explain it all, He'll do it. 785 00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:22,880 I just pray you will see that the Lord is on your side. 786 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,040 The Stone. That the builders rejected. 787 00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:28,160 Has become the cornerstone. Once I was blind, now I see 788 00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:31,440 Jesus is King and him alone. He has won the battle, paid the 789 00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:32,680 price. And he's taking us to. 790 00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:34,440 The altar. He is our refuge. 791 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:36,320 Our. Strength, our song and our trust 792 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:37,320 will never. Falter. 793 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:38,920 So look to Jesus. He's the. 794 00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:42,000 Champion, your soul was made to praise, and every time we. 795 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:43,920 Choose joy. We do it because this is the 796 00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:45,520 day. That the Lord has made. 797 00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:49,000 So here's to the procession. Jump in behind our King and 798 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,520 let's sing out. Together And remember, don't 799 00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:54,440 trust Princess my friends, trusting Jesus is better. 800 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:58,240 Let's pray God, we love you. We declare that. 801 00:35:58,240 --> 00:36:01,320 Trusting you is better than trusting anybody or anything. 802 00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,720 Lord, just pray for my friends who don't know Christ. 803 00:36:04,720 --> 00:36:07,240 God, I pray that they would see that they are not a champion. 804 00:36:07,240 --> 00:36:08,480 God, they would humble themselves. 805 00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:11,720 God, they would relook down that board, relook at that stone and 806 00:36:11,720 --> 00:36:13,720 see that they were wrong. They would humble themselves. 807 00:36:13,720 --> 00:36:15,680 They would repent. God, you would give them a new 808 00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:16,960 heart. Give them. 809 00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:20,080 A fresh sight. Of you upon the cross that 810 00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:22,880 unlocks love for you and God, I pray. 811 00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:24,400 For those. Of us who are in Christ, who 812 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:28,440 just have a tendency to not see you, to not see that we're in 813 00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:29,840 this procession walking behind you. 814 00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,000 God would you teach? Us the joy of just. 815 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,480 Watching you, walking behind you, and God would you take us 816 00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:37,520 home, take us to. Take us to glory, God. 817 00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:40,560 We we do pray. Come Lord Jesus, blessed is he 818 00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,160 who comes the name of the Lord we love you. 819 00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:43,480 Pray this in Christ's name, Amen.